Custom Fretted Instruments & Repair

Welcome to Custom Fretted Instruments & Repair. Our shop, located on the side of a mountain near Sparta, TN, offers professional quality repair and restoration of fretted instruments such as guitars, banjos, mandolins, etc. Electric guitar repair, setups and electronics are a specialty.

We are an authorized warranty repair center for Fender, Takamine and Ovation, and are a dealer for several high quality musical instruments including guitars made by Eastman, Stonebridge/Furch, Huss & Dalton, and J.W. Gallagher & Son. We stock Eastman and Kentucky mandolins, Flinthill, Huss & Dalton, Stelling, and Ome banjos as well as McSpadden lap dulcimers and Dusty Strings hammer dulcimers.

We stock fretted instrument accessories, tuners by Korg and Peterson, strings for most fretted instruments and instructional and reference books and videos.

Our Latest 5 instruments. See our Products page to see the full list.

	Name	Description	Price
	1948 Martin D-18	This is a player grade 1948 D-18. A number of the repairs were done in our shop 8 or 9 years ago, but some was done before that. It is a great sounding old D-18 that has had a recent neck reset and plays great. Something knocked a...	8250.00
	1996 Fender Am. Standard Limited B-Bender	SALE PENDING 1996 Limited edition Fender American Standard Telecaster in Candy Apple Red. Maple fingerboard and neck with a 9.5" radius. Poplar body with a factory-installed Parsons-Green B-Bender. Good setup, and sounds like a tel...	2099.00
	2009 Taylor T3/B	Amazing versatility with Taylor quality & playablility! This semi-hollow Taylor features mahogany body with a stunning quilted maple cap, an ebony fretboard, and a bigsby tailpiece. Taylor's proprietary pickup give it a variety of excellent to...	2099.00
	1992 Andersen F-5 Mandolin	Masterfully built F-5 mandolin with a bright, punchy tone. Features include a beautiful "fiddleback" maple back and sides, spruce top, ebony fingerboard and bridge, and an elegantly bound and shaped ebony scratch guard. Minor play we...	6999.00
	2021 Gibson SG Modern	Great playing SG with a really unique vibe. Beautiful flame maple top that almost has a "herringbone" pattern to it. Fast playing neck. Burstbucker alnico 5 pickups with coil split on the push/pull pots. Very minor signs of play wea...	1999.00